Opalessence Handpainted Warp Table Runners (2025)
Pattern: A 12 shaft 3/1 Twill (Turned twill)
Yarns:
- Warp: 192 ends, including floating selvedges
- Hand-dyed 3/2 mercerized cotton from Opalessence (Margery Erickson)
- Weft: Mostly hand-dyed 5/2 mercerized cotton from Opalessence; some commercial solid weft colours
Sett: 16epi
Method: Weaving — multishaft floor loom (Louët Spring II)
Completed: February 17, 2025.
This was the first project I did on my brand-spanking new Louët Spring II 12 shaft countermarche loom. Lots of learning!
The warp was pre-wound hand-dyed 3/2 cotton. No particular warping instructions were given, though the insert said there were 192 ends, for 16 inches wide if sett at 12 epi. The weft is hand-dyed 5/2 cotton. Margery Erickson (proprietor) suggested plainweave would be best. That’s not what I did 🙂
I was creatively stuck on 3/1 twill patterns, and with that I opted to sett it at 16epi. I did wind up doing some sampling on my table loom, with other 3/2 cotton warp and 5/2 weft, to confirm I was happy with that approach.
With that, I did 3 table runners, and then had enough left to make a couple of small pieces of fabric for zip bags.
Dimensions on the loom:
- 12” wide by 5.5yds total warp
- Each runner was targeted to be about 38″ weaving, plus 6″ at each end for fringe
Dimensions after weaving:
- Lazy me… I didn’t measure :^)
I’ll note that I shorted the first table runner a bit so that it, and its fringe, would be done before the imminent colour transition to much more turquoise. I did three separate treatments for fringe — the first runner has twisted fringe, the second one has a knotted pattern, and the 3rd one was braided.
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